FOIB version II (2007)

(collective) Boredomresearch

FOIB version II (2007) , 2007 – ongoing

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boredomresearch

http://www.boredomresearch.net/forest/index.html#info

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Last updated: 2010-10-02

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Description

click on the base of the tree to write a message
type a message in the text box
click outside text box to store message in ribbon
discard a message in the text box by clicking on the close button in the top left corner
place ribbon on an empty node in the tree
once a message has been placed in the tree it cannot be deleted

Keywords

subjects
- Body and Psychology
  - imagination
technology
- interfaces
- software
  - Softimage
  - software interfaces

Technology & Material

Software

info

Create a tree theme

the first message on a tree sets the tone of the tree

Contribute to a tree

click on the base of the tree to write a message

type a message in the text box
click outside text box to store message in ribbon
discard a message in the text box by clicking on the close button in the top left corner

place ribbon on an empty node in the tree
once a message has been placed in the tree it cannot be deleted

Explore the forest

click and drag on the forest to move around
click on a tree's ribbons to read a message

the location of your mouse is shown as longitude/latitude co-ordinates (bottom left)
you can use these co-ordinates to navigate or direct users to particular trees

Forest map

Click anywhere on the map overview to jump to this location
the red rectangle shows the current area which you are viewing
the grey squares represent the trees in the forest

Exhibitions & Events

El proceso como paradigma

2010

Bibliography

Boredomresearch. »Snail Mail Gets Literal.« Time Magazine 172, no. 5 (August 2008).
Boredomresearch. »The Wired Campus: Real Snail Mail.« The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Boredomresearch. »Real Snail Mail Slashdot.« Slashdot (Online) (June 2008).
Brucker-Cohen, Jonah. »Real Snail Mail Turns Email into Slower Email.« .
Boredomresearch. »NETworking Net Art.« In Computer Fine Art Collection, edited by Illana Tenenbaum and Christiane Paul, 20. Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »Eternity´s Sun Rise.« In Tumbling Dream Chambers Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Paul BrownBerlin: [DAM] Berlin, 2007.
Boredomresearch. »RealSnailMail.« .
Boredomresearch. »Faustian Bargains and Pineapple Shampoo.« Metamute.org/Mute (January 2007).
Boredomresearch. »Theatre of Restless Automata review on boredomresearchs' solo exhibition at Peterborough Digital Arts.« furtherfield.org website (2006).
Boredomresearch. Freefall, Arts Council England international artists fellowships 2001-2003. : Arts Council England, 2004.
Boredomresearch. »New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004 .« In New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, edited by Lucy KimbellManchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 2004.

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